ByteDance · 8 hours ago
Security Tech Lead, Global E-Commerce Security Platform
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$209K/yr - $616K/yr
5+ years expByteDance is a company committed to inspiring creativity and enriching life through its innovative products. The Security Tech Lead will be responsible for building the data security defense line for the Global E-commerce platform, monitoring cyber threats, and ensuring data privacy and confidentiality.
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Responsibilities
Responsible for building the overall data security defense line for the Global E-commerce platform, designing comprehensive prevention and control plans for user-sensitive information and commercial data
Monitor and analyze emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits related to our infrastructure and products
Research new methods and technologies for detecting cyber threats, identifying signals, and developing data-driven approaches that utilize these signals to detect security threats and breaches
Conduct Data Leakage Prevention and internal data management through multiple channels such as platform, ecosystem, and office, ensuring minimal data usage and proper disclosure to protect the privacy and confidentiality of consumers, merchants, and the platform
Work with the big data stack, designing and developing highly scalable systems for full data lifecycle protection, including but not limited to data classification, access control, encryption, masking, auditing, and alerting
Design a sensitive data prevention and control solution for the Global E-commerce full-link platform, successfully implementing the overall solution through cross-team collaboration to ensure that the risk of data being crawled and stolen is controllable
Based on the data usage scenarios of downstream partners and ecological ISVs, design data disclosure and reasonable usage plans, standardizing appropriate data usage by third-party partners to ensure downstream sensitive data is not misused or stolen
Develop an overall reasonable usage plan for Global E-commerce data within office and production environments, ensuring that key business data and personal privacy data are not misused or stolen through proper data lifecycle management
Qualification
Required
A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
5+ years of related experience in data security
Familiar with computer network principles, understanding of HTTP principles and operating mechanisms, and capable of HTTP log auditing and analysis
Data analysis capabilities: Have big data analysis and development capabilities in the Hive environment, and be able to discover threats and risks based on data analysis
Security attack and defense capabilities: Familiar with the principles and utilization methods of security vulnerabilities that can lead to data leakage (server/client), and have relevant vulnerability repair and solution reinforcement capabilities
Experience in the construction of data security prevention and control links
Practical experience and capabilities in the best practices and solution construction processes for preventing various data leakage channels
Preferred
Experience in e-commerce and retail related fields
Experience in data platform related product development or big data technologies, such as Hadoop, ClickHouse, etc
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) savings plan with company match
Paid parental leave
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
Company
ByteDance
ByteDance is a technology company that develops content creation platforms and services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$9.8BKey Investors
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Leadership Team
Jochen Bischoff
Head of Global Business Solutions - Africa
Matty Lin
General Manager, Global Business Solutions, KR
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